​Whether it is a weekly yoga session or reaching for your toes before a run, static stretching plays at least a minor part in most people’s fitness routines. However, scientifically, there seems to be little rhyme or reason to when and why we stretch. In most cases, years of medical research shows we are doing it at the wrong times, and for the wrong reasons, as well as concluding that more research is necessary. Here are five important things to keep in mind when deciding how to make stretching part of your fitness regimen.

​What’s the use of elevation masks? For those who don’t know what that is, it’s an awesome looking fitness accessory that makes you look like Bane from Batman. Other than making you look like a complete bad-ass in the gym and your morning/late night runs, does it have any real purpose?